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Are analogue quantum computers still wishful thinking?Many challenges lie ahead before quantum annealing, the analogue version of quantum computation, contributes to solve combinatorial optimization problems.http://phys.org/news342944122.html
PhysicsThu, 12 Feb 2015 06:15:31 ESTnews342944122Researchers bolster development of programmable quantum computers(Phys.org) —University of Chicago researchers and their colleagues at University College London have performed a proof-of-concept experiment that will aid the future development of programmable quantum computers.http://phys.org/news316333441.html
PhysicsThu, 10 Apr 2014 07:24:27 ESTnews316333441Stronger benchmarks needed to fully quantify quantum speedup, physicist says(Phys.org) —Texas A&M University physicist Helmut G. Katzgraber's research takes him to the crossroads of physics, computer science, quantum information theory and statistical mechanics. For more than a decade, he has been pushing the frontiers of computational physics to study hard optimization problems and disordered materials, applying his expertise to problems in the fascinating and fast-evolving field of quantum computing.http://phys.org/news310811969.html
PhysicsWed, 05 Feb 2014 08:39:50 ESTnews310811969D-Wave uses quantum method to solve protein folding problem(Phys.org) -- While there has been some skepticism as to whether the Canadian company D-Wave&#146;s quantum computing system, the D-Wave One, truly involves quantum computing, the company is intent on proving that the system is both a quantum device as well as a useful one. In a new study, D-Wave CEO Geordie Rose and other D-Wave researchers have teamed up with Harvard quantum physicist Al&#225;n Aspuru-Guzik and post-doc Alejandro Perdomo-Ortiz to demonstrate that the D-Wave One system can solve the challenging task of finding the lowest-energy configuration of a folded protein.http://phys.org/news264739424.html
PhysicsTue, 21 Aug 2012 05:20:03 ESTnews264739424D-Wave researchers demonstrate progress in quantum computing(PhysOrg.com) -- Taking another step toward demonstrating quantum behavior in a quantum computer, researchers from the Vancouver-based company D-Wave Systems, Inc., have performed a technique called quantum annealing, which could provide the computational model for a quantum processor. They have published a study describing the demonstration in a recent issue of Nature.http://phys.org/news224517770.html
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